September 2009
16 posts
Battle of the buzzwords: Apple vs. Microsoft →
Apple is awesome. Microsoft is muscular. Apple execs speaks in adjectives; Microsoft’s in gerunds. Cupertino wants to show us how cool its products are, and how easy-to-use. Redmond wants us to know…
The Muse swap their roles and nobody notice it! →
During a performance on Italian TV, the Muse swap their roles in the band to protest against the production of the show who forbid them to perform live.The funny thing is nobody notices anything!!
5 Popular Facebook Scams (and How to Avoid Them) →
Just as bearded hipsters migrate from bar to bar in pursuit of young ladies to ogle, so too have scammers and hackers followed their prey from MySpace to Facebook. As a result, the social network…
Google Launches New Ad Marketplace; Ads Will Never... →
You’re probably familiar with Google AdSense and AdWords, Google’sGoogle flagship advertising products. It’s how Google makes its billion of dollars. Google has just launched the DoubleClick Ad…
Kevin Rose: What’s Right at Digg, What Went Wrong... →
This video is longer than most of our behind-the-scenes glimpses, but we covered a lot of territory. Rose tells us the single most important product move Digg has made in the last year, whether his…
Popular Search Engines in the 90s Then and Now →
This article harks back to the days of AltaVista, HotBot, and when Ask was still Ask Jeeves. You’ll see how the web designs of ubiquitous search engines of the past have evolved through time. Put…
Apple Open Sources Snow Leopard's Grand Centr →
Despite being a unique, key marketing feature of Snow Leopard, Apple has decided to open the code behind Grand Central Dispatch under the liberal Apache 2.0 license.
Mary River Turtle [Pic] →
Birds on the Wires →
Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes. Not the most original idea in the…
What's wrong with this picture? →
Mannahatta [PIC] →
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30 Horrific Commercial Photoshop Disasters →
Here’s a collection of horrific commercial Photoshop disasters made by professional graphic designers, who have made a poor job of not paying attention to
This simplification of two remotes made me... →
Gmail Email FAIL: Why Gmail Went Down. →
Gmail, Google’s email service, was down for an hour or two yesterday, causing widespread wailing and gnashing of teeth. Not just the free version, but also the Google Apps email service was affected….
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica... →
Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard has landed. This time around, Apple goes light on the glitz in favor of some heavy work under the hood. John Siracusa dives deep into Apple’s new OS offering to see…
Man Spies on New Owner of Stolen Computer via... →
Earlier, we reported the story of a robbery victim who used his stolen iPhone’s GPS application to track down his purloined phone and, thus, the suspected thieves. In other crime-fighting Mac news,…